Earlier this month, the New York State Democratic Party chairman, Jay Jacobs, signed on to a petition calling for the Democratic National Committee to make the legalization of same-sex marriage the Democratic Party's official position at the national convention. He would presumably not have done this without the assent, of not the urging, of the party's de facto leader, Andrew Cuomo, whose successful push for marriage-equality in New York is a component of his prospective future presidential bid.

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I asked whether he thought Obama would lose votes if he endorsed same-sex marriage.

O'Donnell said it was unlikely.

"The people who would be most profoundly upset or disappointed with that position aren't voting for you anyway. So I don't really think anyone who is rabidly against my equality is really pulling a lever for Barack Obama, one way or another."

2012

More on gay-rights groups pushing to make same-sex marriage part of the platform at the Democratic convention. [Associated Press]

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"You see, in politics communications is the name of the game and [Sheinkopf] was said to be the best, he even told us he was." [Adam Lombardi]